* vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie) [Wed 26 Mar 2003, 16:24 CET]:
so here's a proposal. we (speaking for ISC here) could add a config option (default to OFF) to make bind send some kind of registration packet at boot time, containing an e-mail address for a technical contact for that server, and perhaps its hostname as well. the destination would be configurable, and the format would be open, and we would include in the distribution a tool capable of catching these. any campus/WAN admin who wanted to run their own "BIND registration system" could do so. anyone who wanted to simply config their server to send registration data to ISC could do so. for data received at ISC, we'd (a) keep it completely private other than public statistics, (b) clean it of obvious trash (some people will sent registration data for president@whitehouse.gov just for fun; we know that), and (c) use the contact information only in the event that a security defect discovered in that version. remember, the default would be OFF.
given such a feature, whose default was OFF, would anyone here who uses BIND stop using it out of protest? if so plz answer publically (on nanog).
So how much would this differ from `make install' running this shell script? --- cat <<EOF Congratulations! You have just successfully installed BIND ${VERSION}. If you want to be kept up-to-date on future announcements on BIND (for example, security vulnerabilities found in your version), say Y here. This is highly recommended! EOF read answer case "$answer" in y|Y|[Yy][Ee][Ss]) echo subscribe | mail bind-announce-request@isc.org ;; *) echo "You can still see security updates at" echo "http://www.isc.org/products/bind/" echo "Please check there regularly!" esac --- -- Niels. -- subvertise me